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Welcome home: The #SpaceX #CRS16 #Falcon9 1st stage rocket returned to Port Canaveral today after taking an unplanned dip in the Atlantic; the top of the stage took some damage on impact.
For this mission, reusability = uncertain, but recovery = affirmative. Well done, Elon & team!
(Pics: me / @WeReportSpace)
This is the #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket seen lifting off at 1:26am on Sunday, August 14, 2016 in a successful launch of the #JCSAT16 satellite. The first stage was successfully landed on the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" postioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Just another Wednesday on the Space Coast of Florida: A rocket homecoming as the #SpaceX #Telstar19V #Falcon9 first stage returned to Port Canaveral this morning (July 25, 2018) atop the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You."
Note people (and a large ship, a bulk carrier) for scale, with special guest appearance by NASA’s VAB on the horizon in one pic.
(Pics: me / We Report Space)
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Pictures taken of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket during remote camera setup for members of the media on February 5, 2018. The rocket is scheduled for launch, the first ever for the Falcon Heavy, at 1:30pm (ET) on Tuesday, February 6, 2018.
(Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
LoanDepot Park
Miami, FL
February 22nd, 2022
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Hi Lego SpaceX Starship fans,
To celebrate 5,000 supporters at Lego Ideas, here is our first new Starship nose design update :-)
ideas.lego.com/projects/5199f8dc-34ad-492a-91e2-0008c8e37...
As we pass the halfway mark, we also want to thank the amazing people spreading the word about this project. A big shout out to the Everyday Astronaut Tim Dodd: everydayastronaut.com/
Human Mars: www.humanmars.net/2019/01/support-for-spacex-starship-sup...
Eurobricks: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/169697-l...
Along with all the Facebook fans, Reddit contributors: www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/akivsg/lego_spacex... , and Tweeters: twitter.com/Matthew_Nolan1 :)
We’ve been listening to your suggestions and following Elon's advice to constantly be thinking about how we could be doing things better.
On that note we're thrilled to release our first update.
This enanced nose cone greatly improves the accuracy - check back soon to see more improvements and new additions!
Cheers :-)
The SpaceX BFR / Starship & Super Heavy 1:110 scale team
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, FL. – This afternoon, June 17, 2021, SpaceX launched the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) III-5 Mission. The previously flown Falcon 9 booster roared to life at 12:09 PM EDT from launch complex 40. The GPS III-5 was built by Lockheed Martin for both military and civilian uses was placed into orbit and shortly after launch, the first stage made a successful landing on the recovery ship “Just Read the Instructions”.
Early Thursday morning at 1 AM on 8-3-23 SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Galaxy 37 communications satellite. This was the sixth flight of the first stage booster which landed successfully on the barge Just Read the Instructions. This image was taken from the beach in Vero Beach, Florida which is 63 miles (101 kilometers) south of the launch site.
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At 3:45pm (ET) SpaceX and Elon Musk successfully launched the Falcon Heavy rocket from historic Pad 39A at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.. Approximately 8 minutes after launch, the two outer cores would return safely to SpaceX's Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the center core ran out of fuel needed to relight 3 engines for the re-entry burn. The core was unable to slow its descent and it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at approximately 300 mph. Musk added that he was most interested in recovering the two outer cores, as they flew with titanium grid fins, which are very expensive to make.
Photos taken during the early morning of Monday, October 30, 2017 during remote camera setup. The KoreaSat5A payload is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today (October 30, 2017); the launch window opens at 3:34pm (ET) (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Scheduled to launch Wednesday at 9:03pm (ET), the SpaceX Crew-3 rocket and Crew Dragon are looking good at LC-39A, seen here Tuesday morning.
(Camera:me / Nat Geo)
At 11:17 am (EDT) on Friday, April 8, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket lifted off from historic LC-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. This successful launch resulted in the Crew Dragon capsule and its all-private crew of four making it to orbit. The Axiom Space Ax-1 mission crew members Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe will dock at the International Space Station, spending more than a week conducting scientific research, outreach, and commercial activities on the space station.
Hands Off! Protest in Vero Beach, Florida on April 5, 2025. A large crowd of over 2000 showed up to protest Trump and Elon Musk policies and the havoc caused by DOGE. This was one of 1200 locations where people raised their voices across the nation with more than 5 million participating. Resist!
Scenes of the SpaceX #Falcon9 booster B1060.2 returning to Cape Canaveral this (Sunday) AM.
Congratulations to
@elonmusk
& the #SpaceX team on another successful mission!
SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk, left, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate William Gerstenmaier, second from left, NASA International Space Station Program Manager Kirk Shireman, second from right, and SpaceX Director of Crew Mission Management Benji Reed, right, watch the progress of the Crew Dragon spacecraft after launch from firing room four of the Launch Control Center, Saturday, March 2, 2019 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission will be the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Almost a year back
I moved out of Twitter
with no regrets
was finding it
claustrophobic
with Muslim haters
Jew Haters Indian haters
to get out the time was set
Twitter had become a
common toilet ..
There were good people
good moments I will never
forget .
So now Mr Elon Musk is
the new driver in the front
seat ...some people's pants
are already getting wet
44 billion half that amount could
feed all the poor in the world
you bet ...
a heart to let ..
#flickrpoet
The #SpaceX #INMARSAT5 #Falcon9 on the pad, ready for launch. Window opens at 7:20pm (ET) tonight. (Photo by @Mike_Seeley / @WeReportSpace )
The Economist, October 1st-7th 2016 issue.
Elon Musk, and others, say humanity should spread to other planets. During his lifetime he hopes to be able to move to Mars.
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Elon Musk (age 45) is the South African-born Canadian-American founder, of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors.
As of June 2016, he was the 83rd wealthiest person in the world.
Musk's goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by setting up a human colony on Mars.
-- Wikipedia
SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk, left, speaks with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley, center, and Bob Behnken, right, who are assigned to fly on the crewed Demo-2 mission after launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Demo-1 mission from firing room four of the Launch Control Center, Saturday, March 2, 2019 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission will be the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy has launched on Lego Ideas ( ideas.lego.com/projects/5199f8dc-34ad-492a-91e2-0008c8e37f81 ), This perfect partner for your Saturn V is only 1,400 supporters away from formal review! It stands 106cm tall & is 1:110 scale. Front & rear fins actuate and the cockpit opens to reveal reclinable pilot & passenger seating.
There's still time to support SpaceX Lego, only 1,400 tickets left for Starship-Super Heavy!
Photos from the early morning return of the now twice launched and landed #SpaceX #Falcon9 first stage to Port Canaveral aboard the drone-ship "Of Course I Still Love You". This follows the successful launch of the #BulgariaSat1 payload. (Photos by Michael Seeley / WeReportSpace)
#SES10 #Falcon9 reused first stage by #SpaceX:Liftoff, seen from the NASA's Kennedy Space Center Press Site
At 8:45pm (ET) on February 21, 2019, SpaceX successfully launched the #NusantaraSatu #Falcon9 rocket, successfully launching (and, minutes later, landing) a Falcon9 first-stage booster. This is a 25-second exposure, capture from the launch pad.
(Pics: Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Pictures of the #SpaceX #SES10 #Falcon9 "flight proven" first stage, the second time it's been launched and landed. Shots taken from Jetty Park Pier and Port Canaveral as the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship carries the first stage home. (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
At 5:07pm (ET) on June 3, 2017, SpaceX successfully launched the #CRS11 #Falcon9 rocket, carrying a previously flown #Dragon capsule to resupply the International Space Station. This was the 100th launch from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and the first time a previously flown (aka "flight-proven", per Elon Musk) capsule was used as the payload. (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Photos from remote camera setup for the #EchoStarXXIII #Falcon9 launch by #SpaceX, atop a legless Falcon9 rocket. Launch window opens at 1:34 am on Tuesday, March 13, 2017. (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 2:49am (ET), SpaceX successfully launched the Crew Dragon capsule on a demo flight to the International Space Station. This is a 218-sec exposure captured from the roof of the Florida Today building. (Pic: me / We Report Space)
The Motortrend P85D review starts with a comparison to the million-dollar McLaren F1 supercar, a car that Elon Musk used to own, and which we both remember being parked by the front door at the first Tesla event in 2006. (Here is a vintage video of Elon receiving his F1.)
And here is what MotorTrend has to say about the D:
“The P85D accelerates like nothing else we’ve tested. With electric-fast reactions, its traction control matches wheel torque to available road grip to produce the launch of the gods.
"In the options selection, you'll be able to choose three settings: Normal. Sport. And Insane." Elon Musk glanced around and grinned. "Yeah, it will actually say 'In-sane.'"
How crazy? Musk: "Our goal was to match one of the fastest cars ever made: the McLaren F1."
Can the F1 designer's fabled carbon-fiber, 627-hp, Ferrari-humbling masterpiece actually be paced to 60 mph by a five-seat sedan with a trunk sized for a Home Depot haul?
Ask the man who's owned both. In 2007, as the revelry wore down after Tesla's original (now trademark) half rock concert/half car introduction for the Roadster at the Burbank airport, I was walking back to my car only to find, parked out front, an F1. Later I realized it was Musk's. Yeah, he's already familiar with this comparison.
The McLaren F1's time of 3.2 seconds to 60 mph was the technological redline of what a mad genius Grand Prix designer could conjure from a road car. I tested one back in the day, and although it was at a closed airstrip encircled by acres of table-flat run-off room, it was among the most shattering few seconds of my life. One moment everything was still; the next, the cabin had exploded in a maniacal machine racket. The tach needle swept clockwise, the clutch pedal fought my left foot's stabs, the shifter pinballed through its detents, the V-12 engine charged through its revs again, my right foot feared staying planted but did anyway, everything shook, and I just hung the hell on as the world melted into a smear. Exhale. Launch one of Musk's Falcon 9 rockets horizontally, and you'll get the idea.
But scrambling to the same 60 mph time in the P85D bears no resemblance to that at all. With one transmission gear and no head-bobbing shifts, it's instead a rail-gun rush down a quarter-mile of asphalt bowling lane. Nothing in the drivetrain reciprocates; every part spins. There's no exhaust smell; the fuel is invisible. Within the first degree of its first revolution, 100 percent of the motors' combined 687 lb-ft slams the sense out of you. A rising-pitch ghost siren augers into your ears as you're not so much accelerating as pneumatically suctioned into the future. You were there. Now you're here. The wormhole between the two is courtesy of a second motor on the front axle.
Essentially, the two motors' email-instant reflexes mean the stability control system is the drivetrain itself—and vice versa—not a Band-Aided layer of throttle- and brake-mitigating technologies overlaid on a big-inertia crankshaft and flailing pistons accustomed to Pony Express reaction times.
The P85D accelerates at the highest rate the road's mu (its coefficient of friction) allows. It's surreally efficient. And it's so fast off the line that the slower-sampling rate of our two high-frequency GPS data loggers was actually missing some of the action; within the first 1/20th of a sec (not even the "O" in "One Mississippi") the car was already going 0.7 mph. To 30 mph the P85D would be four feet ahead of the fastest-accelerating sedan we've tested, the Audi RS 7, a gap that holds to 60 when the Tesla punches the clock at 3.1 seconds
How will the psychological landscape among Mercedes-Benz AMG, Audi RS, and BMW M crowd be recast if, when a Tesla Model S P85D rolls up at a light, it's game over, guys? Brace yourself, Teutonic Status Quo, because the quickest-accelerating sedan in the world isn't German anymore. It's from California. As they say in Palo Alto: Auf Wiedersehen!”
And here are some Elon quotes from yesterday’s conference call:
“Everyone and their mom is approaching us with battery improvements. I think literally their mom in some cases.” (18:40) “My advice for anyone with a breakthrough is: please send us a sample cell. Don’t send us Powerpoint. Just send us one cell that works. That would be great. That sorts out the nonsense and the claims that aren’t actually true. The battery industry has to have more B.S. in it than any industry I have ever encountered. It’s just insane.” (19:20)
“I do think the X is going to be something quite special… I think people will appreciate that we get the details right. If you get all of the details right is like the difference between a diamond with a flaw and diamond without a flaw. But it’s damn hard to do that.” (27:57)
Welcome home: The #SpaceX #CRS16 #Falcon9 1st stage rocket returned to Port Canaveral today after taking an unplanned dip in the Atlantic; the top of the stage took some damage on impact.
For this mission, reusability = uncertain, but recovery = affirmative. Well done, Elon & team!
(Pics: me / @WeReportSpace)
The weather forecast suggested #SpaceX would need to "thread the needle" for good weather.
Mission accomplished. At 1:29pm (ET) Thursday, the #CRS22 #Falcon9 launched, sending to the 7,000lbs of supplies to the International Space Station.
It was a hazy but pretty launch, at least for the few seconds before it flew into the clouds.
Pics: me / National Geographic
SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk signs a banner after discussing progress on the Commercial Crew Program with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at the SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy has launched on Lego Ideas ( ideas.lego.com/projects/5199f8dc-34ad-492a-91e2-0008c8e37f81 ), This perfect partner for your Saturn V is only 1,400 supporters away from formal review! It stands 106cm tall & is 1:110 scale. Front & rear fins actuate and the cockpit opens to reveal reclinable pilot & passenger seating.
There's still time to support SpaceX Lego, only 1,400 tickets left for Starship-Super Heavy!
Hands Off! Protest in Vero Beach, Florida on April 5, 2025. A large crowd of over 2000 showed up to protest Trump and Elon Musk policies and the havoc caused by DOGE. This was one of 1200 locations where people raised their voices across the nation with more than 5 million participating. Resist!
SpaceX launch with Telstar 18V from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, at 12:45 am (ET) Monday morning, with support from the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base
High resolution image of the now twice flown and twice landed #SpaceX #Falcon9 first stage, which most recently carried the #BulgariaSat1 satellite to orbit. This is the rocket entering the Port Canaveral channel Thursday morning (June 29, 2017) atop the drone-ship "Of Course I Still Love You", and of particular note, it is sitting atop a piece of equipment that stablilizes the rocket after landing. It has been called the "roomba", "octo-grabber", and "Optimus Prime".
This is a merge of 4 images, creating an effective resolution of 5580x9540. (Image by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
At 11:17 am (EDT) on Friday, April 8, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket lifted off from historic LC-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. This successful launch resulted in the Crew Dragon capsule and its all-private crew of four making it to orbit. The Axiom Space Ax-1 mission crew members Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe will dock at the International Space Station, spending more than a week conducting scientific research, outreach, and commercial activities on the space station.
So this was a lucky shot, one of two taken by a sound-activated camera set at the pad approximately 12 hours before the #SpaceX #CRS15 #Falcon9 rocket would launch.
It was very rainy when we were setting up the cameras, which was a problem, but the biggest challenge (for me at least) was not knowing exactly where the rocket would be, as it was horizontal when we were there.
So, I pointed the zoom lens at where I thought the rocket would be and crossed my fingers. For the focus, I realized that I still had my focus ring taped from the last Falcon9 launch. Since I was setting the camera in approximately the same location, I just left the focus ring where it was.
Frankly, I'm surprised I had anything in the frame...
(Photo me / We Report Space) — at Kennedy Space Center.